11. Alfred De Vigny Comte Alfred Victor de Vigny (17971863). French poet, playwright, and novelistwho started first a military career but became a poet.http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/devigny.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: ABCD ... Z by birthday from the calendarCredits and feedbackComte Alfred Victor de Vigny (1797-1863) French poet, playwright, and novelist who started first a military career but became a poet. Vigny's CHATTERTON (1835) is one of the most important and influential plays of the romantic stage. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was an English poet, whose life and early death fascinated the Romantics. Vigny's poetry was marked by a stoical despair, pessimism, and philosophical, meditative tone. In his lyrics Vigny was more restrained about his inner feelings than his great colleague, Lord Byron, but in his Journal intime Vigny recorded his personal thoughts. "Silence alone is great; all else in weakness" (from La Mort du Loup Victor HugoThe March of Literature (1938), that "if it is really historic enough in the episodes it selects to render, it selects historic events that are always of romantic coloring." Cinq-Mars was well received by readers, but Hugo's friend Charles-Augistin Sainte-Beuve reviewed it badly. Vigny wrote about his critic in his Journal d'un poete in 1829: "He behaves very humbly and had made himself a henchman of Victor Hugo, who encouraged him to turn his hand to poetry... Though he addresses him like a master, Hugo is Sainte-Beuve's pupil. He is well aware that Sainte-Beuve is providing him with a literary education but he does not see to what extent that clever young man dominates him politically."

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